Micron and Western Digital Shares Skyrocket, What You Need To Know

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after investors shrugged off interest rate hike expectations following the August jobs report and unwound defensive positioning in beaten-down chip designers, according to Bloomberg. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added 162,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in August, easily beating estimates of a 56,000 increase from economists polled by FactSet. The agency also reported that the national unemployment rate held steady at 4.1